Academic Research on the Web

[John Simkin]

According to research carried out by the University of Southampton the UK is in the vanguard of the drive to make academic research freely available to anyone on the internet. A table has been constructed by looking at the number of registered archives relative to population. List of countries in rank order:

1. Sweden

2. Netherlands

3. UK

4. Canada

5. Australia

6. Finland

7. Denmark

8. Belgium

9. Germany

10. US